Help uninstalling windows98 rev pack

[frankypc]

I installed it and at first it all ran great etc but lately everything crashes, all the time, games, apps, explorer everything its extremely unstable, ive googled everything but i havnt found a way to uninstall the revolution pack (if there is one..)

Thanks.

[Eck]

Oi vey.

Hmmm, if there's nothing related to it in Window's Add/Remove Programs then this might be tough. I'm sure a program like that replaces many versions of Windows key system files with tweaked versions that enable all the cool effects. Perhaps there is a shortcut for removing it somewhere on your Start Menu or even within a folder on your drive that contains the Revolution's files. Check your boot (usually C:) drive and also within the Program Files folder for a subfolder that has the Revolution's program files.

With no sign of it in add/remove, I would first try running the setup for the Revo Pack again. Perhaps we'll be lucky and one of the options in the setup program will be to uninstall it.

It's possible there is supposed to be an uninstall showing in add/remove but somehow it got deleted, possibly by a registry cleaner? To see if that is the case, try to completely install the Revolutions Pack again. Then check add/remove to see if it shows up there.

If that doesn't work, do you need to keep this Windows install? If so, try to back up anything really important to you onto cdr disks if Windows still works, then uninstall Internet Explorer from add/remove programs (unless Windows won't run), then boot to a command prompt (press the ctrl key while booting and if that doesn't bring up the Windows Startup Menu then try holding down F8 while booting). Type at the command "DEL C:\Windows\win.com" then reboot with a Windows Startup floppy disk and choose to startup with cdrom support. Put your Windows 98SE cdrom into your cdrom drive. Then type "E:" if that is what the dos screen says is where your cdrom drive is, then type "Setup." (No period's or quotation marks!) Run setup. Make sure to change where you want to install Windows to C:\WINDOWS when it tells you it's going to install Windows to something like C:\windows001. You'll need to reinstall Internet Explorer and get all the Windows Updates again. Then check to see which of your program's work. For those that don't you'll need to reinstall them.

Better, if you have all your program's setup files and all your important stuff already backed up to cdr's, as well as any device drivers for your hardware, you can format your hard drive and install Windows clean.

That stuff is what I would try. I hope you work it out with as limited hastle as possible! Good luck.

Edited July 31, 2005 by Eck